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Russell A. Berman started the topic Censorship, Self-Censorship and Half-Hearted "Justice in Palestine" in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThose advocating that the MLA boycott Israeli academic institutions are rallying under the banner of “Justice for Palestine.” Everyone in fact should support justice, and not only in Palestine. Agreed? Unfortunately the slogan “Justice for Palestine” is just that, a slogan; it is a vehicle to attack Israel and is only concerned with “justice” when…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman started the topic "Justice in Palestine" and the Kasabeh murder in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDo BDS supporters have anything to say about the burning of pilot Kasabeh? Or will they blame it on Israel?
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Benjamin Fraser uploaded the file: CFP: DISSH Digital Symposium to
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoCFP: DISSH Digital Symposium
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Benjamin Fraser started the topic Digital Symposium at East Carolina Univ. March 18, 2015 with 5 invited speakers in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoPls. spread the word, East Carolina University is hosting a Digital Innovation and Scholarship in the Social Sciences and Humanities Symposium in Greenville, NC, March 18th, 2015. Speakers below, guests welcome, 5-7-minute lightning-round presentations are currently being solicited at our website. Both graduate students and faculty welcome.
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Akiko Tsuchiya created the doc CFP for 2016 MLA: Global Galdós in the group
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 11 years ago -
Akiko Tsuchiya created the doc CFP for 2016 MLA: Global Galdós in the group
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 11 years ago -
Akiko Tsuchiya created the doc CFP for 2016 MLA: Global Galdós in the group
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 11 years ago -
Russell A. Berman started the topic Palestinian Human Rights Leader Attacks the Boycott in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 11 years agoBassem Eid is the founder of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group. He has also become a strident critic of the Palestinian Authority–given the threat that the PA poses to human rights. Hence his dismissal of the boycott.
The question in our discussion is whether those who call for “justice in Palestine” are able to see any injustice…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman replied to the topic Correction to the Record on the Delegate Assembly Vote in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 11 years agoUnfortunately it cuts both ways. A former student of mine, with, let me say, centrist views on the Middle East, lost his job–he was just a lecturer, and the anti-Israel tenured faculty decided he was expendable.
That’s why we should work toward a culture in which academic decisions are not subordinated to political judgments, and that’s why I…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman replied to the topic Correction to the Record on the Delegate Assembly Vote in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 11 years agoMargaret–We’re in agreement at least about ambiguity! (and you and I are in agreement, unambiguously, about the previous year’s CCSF discussion). On point four, I recall speaking for a broadened franchise in governance and receiving lots of positive support for that. Had I been a delegate with voting rights on this matter, I too would have…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman replied to the topic Correction to the Record on the Delegate Assembly Vote in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 11 years agoI too am pleased that we can discuss here. The point remains that David Lloyd misrepresented the vote on point four. He is quite explicit about this in his Mondoweiss piece where he treats it (twice) as an endorsement of speech about Israel and Palestine, when it was a discussion about the MLA and faculty governance. In this discussion in which…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman started the topic Where BDS Lost: Thinking Through the Vancouver Numbers in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe series of votes at the Delegate Assembly at the MLA convention in Vancouver showed some significant weaknesses to BDS and limits to its support. It’s important to look at the results closely and draw some conclusions.
Five votes deserve scrutiny: the initial vote to adopt the Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee (DAOC) two-year moratorium…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman started the topic Correction to the Record on the Delegate Assembly Vote in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe recent Delegate Assembly meeting in Vancouver included a robust discussion on a set of issues, prompted by the clash of two different proposed resolutions–one supporting academic boycotts, one opposing them. The Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee has wisely created space for discussion of these matters (an agreement that included a w…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman started the topic Correction to the Record on the Delegate Assembly Vote in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe recent Delegate Assembly meeting in Vancouver included a robust discussion on a set of issues, prompted by the clash of two different proposed resolutions–one supporting academic boycotts, one opposing them. The Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee has wisely created space for discussion of these matters (an agreement that included a…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman started the topic The Challenge of Open Discussion: Another Lesson from the Delegate Assembly in the forum
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe DAOC program involves an extended, two-year discussion of topics relevant to the boycott–in order to explore their complexity and in order to inform the membership. These would seem to be desirable goals.
A disheartening outcome of the DA was that, in the initial vote as to whether to accept the DAOC proposal, about one third of the DA…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman replied to the topic Delegate Assembly meeting in the forum
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 11 years agoThere’s a useful description of the DA discussion at:
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Russell A. Berman started the topic What is a boycott? One lesson from the Delegate Assembly in the forum
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee has initiated a series of venues (including this commons group) to discuss issues around BDS. In particular, it dedicated much of the open discussion section of the DA meeting to this: these are opportunities to get insight into the various opinions at stake.
One key take-away for me from the DA…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman started the topic BDS means subordinating academic judgment to political criteria in the forum
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 11 years ago“[…] the ethical responsibility of every free person and every association of free persons, academic institutions included, to resist injust supersedes other considerations about whether such acts of resistance may directly or indirectly injure academic freedom.”
–Omar Barghouti, “Boycott, Academic Freedom, and the Moral Responsibility to U…[Read more]
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